The original is:
”1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies”
A better edit might be something like:
“The $50k bug where Zendesk backdoored Fortune 500 companies”
50k corresponds to the money they made with unrelated bug bounties.
I wish they would fix the title so that it properly calls out zendesk refused to pay for a serious bug.
1 bug, 50k:
I don't know why the "1" got dropped.
If you submit "Why I care" it'll decide that you meant 'I care".
If you submit "10 More Secrets in Pokemon" it'll decide you meamt "More Secrets in Pokemon".
Conversely, there's an entire cottage industry focused on writing attention-catching headlines, which results in patterns like what HN mangles.
If it's annoying, OP can edit immediately after submitting to overwrite the mangled title with the correct one.